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Old 15-02-2010, 08:46 AM   #1
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A SEAFORD man took an unexpected dip in a river after his ute followed his jet-ski into the water.
Curious onlookers watched as Chris Leader reversed the red ute into Kananook Creek at Frankston and ended up in the water just after 10am yesterday.
Mr Leader was forced to climb out of the driver's window and swim back to shore.
"I was trying to get the jet-ski into the water, but my foot slipped on the accelerator," Mr Leader admitted.
"The next thing I knew, I was halfway in the creek. It was terrifying really."
Witness Kyrie Hadjiloizou said: "We were all yelling, 'Get out of the car, get out of the car'."
Local fishermen's attempts to help by hooking a rope to a 4WD and trying to pull the ute out only made things worse, causing the vehicle to go under the water.
Eventually it was pulled clear.

The old accelerator slip....

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Old 15-02-2010, 08:48 AM   #2
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how does somebody that silly earn enough money to buy those things?
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Old 15-02-2010, 08:50 AM   #3
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The Jetski goes in the water, not the ute you fool
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Old 15-02-2010, 08:54 AM   #4
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Ouch kibibble..at least he probably has insurance. This is something I expect from an American hillbilly with his big pickup truck, not an Aussie ford driver.
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Old 15-02-2010, 09:09 AM   #5
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Perhaps he was trying to do a Top Gear, amphibious ute thing.
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Old 15-02-2010, 09:12 AM   #6
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Old 15-02-2010, 09:15 AM   #7
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Atleast he didn't try and blame the cruise control......
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Old 15-02-2010, 09:29 AM   #8
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Come on guys.. Accidents happen, give the guy a break..
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Old 15-02-2010, 09:34 AM   #9
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Come on guys.. Accidents happen, give the guy a break..
Beat me to it. He grabbed the wrong pedal by mistake, dosn't make him dumb - just unlucky.

Hopefuly he buys a shiney new red FG ute to replace it with his insurance payout.
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Come on guys.. Accidents happen, give the guy a break..
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But how is the ute facing the opposite direction to the shore? I mean, the tray should be further into the water, not the engine!
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Old 15-02-2010, 09:42 AM   #11
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But how is the ute facing the opposite direction to the shore? I mean, the tray should be further into the water, not the engine!
I was about to write the same thing..
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Old 15-02-2010, 09:50 AM   #12
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Maybe a pic of when it first went intro the drink would help. My guess is that it has floated around a bit after going in and that's when this was taken. I could be wrong, but the article does say he was reversing at the start of it all.

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Old 15-02-2010, 09:53 AM   #13
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It also states the initial recovery effort with the 4WD and rope made if worse.
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One to watch out for at the auction's...
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Old 15-02-2010, 10:26 AM   #15
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I cant help but 'Lol' a little (purely because its a bizarre thing to happen), but poor bloke. Talk about bad luck :(
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But how is the ute facing the opposite direction to the shore? I mean, the tray should be further into the water, not the engine!
The footage of it down here last night showed it being dragged out by the rear, so I'm guessing it was deliberately spun around to allow the towbar to be used to recover it. The first shot on the news showed the trailer and ute almost completely submerged with the jetski still attached and floating above it all...hehe
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Old 15-02-2010, 10:57 AM   #17
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The footage of it down here last night showed it being dragged out by the rear, so I'm guessing it was deliberately spun around to allow the towbar to be used to recover it. The first shot on the news showed the trailer and ute almost completely submerged with the jetski still attached and floating above it all...hehe
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It also states the initial recovery effort with the 4WD and rope made if worse.
Maybe the 4WD was across the river at the other ramp??? LOL.

It's probably coming out backwards because there is nowhere to easily attach a rope at the front.

Darwin Awards anyone? Sorry but it's more than just bad luck if your foot hits the accelerator instead of the brake - the guy's an idiot (well totally incompetent at the least) straight up, and don't make excuses for him.
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Old 15-02-2010, 11:13 AM   #19
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I wonder if this one will have to be investigated by Ford too?
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Darwin Awards anyone? Sorry but it's more than just bad luck if your foot hits the accelerator instead of the brake - the guy's an idiot (well totally incompetent at the least) straight up, and don't make excuses for him.
Is it hard being perfect?

Things happen, he'll gt a new ute out of it, a ribbing from his mates and move on. Such is life.
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Epic Fail?
http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=11281923
add it to the list...

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Old 15-02-2010, 01:36 PM   #22
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feel bad if the guy does get a new FG ute and comes on here haha
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feel bad if the guy does get a new FG ute and comes on here haha
This would have been his first post:
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Old 15-02-2010, 05:37 PM   #24
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Scarey isn't it?

Poor fella probably worked hard to get that and we judge him LOL

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That was what I was thinking. Mabey not so dumb????
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I've witnessed some funny thing at ramps. Sometimes with a crowd, sometimes on the quiet.

Stuff like this is quite distressing for the owners, and it makes it hard to offer assistance when they're yelling and hollering.....

Never seen one go front end down, that's gold if he did infact drive it down there front first, but as other have suggested, the recovery operation probably had more to do with it.

Seen a new Landcruiser (at the time, turbo diesel GXL) with water in the doors. finally stopped the motor and took a damn good effort with a tractor to get it out. It had 4 tonnes of boat on the trailer though.....

Bad luck it is not, human it is......

Glass houses guys, we've all done a silly thing and gone WTF..........
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Nothing to do with this thead.
But heard of a story a guy put his new boat in the water. cruised off but very slow when tryed to speed up. Nobody told him that ya ment to remove boat from trailer, not trailer from car and cruise with trailer still attached to the boat. Some people more money than brains.
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